Publication: Lectura, escritura y bibliotecas en el hospital psiquiátrico
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Martinez Azumendi, Óscar
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Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones
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https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.692041
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Las bibliotecas en los hospitales psiquiátricos tuvieron un importante papel en el denominado tratamiento moral. Los libros se utilizaron como distracción y entretenimiento, así como terapia (biblioterapia o terapia por la lectura).Acompañándolas, vemos la aparición de diversas publicaciones donde se divulgaban los escritos de los pacientes, con el doble fin de promover una actividad intelectual, así como proyectar la institución al exterior. Los fanzines hospitalarios, surgidostempranamente en el siglo XIX, han sobrevivido a lo largo de los años adaptándose a los tiempos. Desde un punto de vista historiográfico y en primera persona, aquellas modestas publicaciones, en grave riesgo de perderse muchas de ellas para siempre, adquieren un especial valor añadido como fuentes primarias de conocimiento del día a día institucional. El trabajo, parte de un proyecto más amplio (www.psiquifanzines.com), se fundamenta en la revisión de un extenso número de publicaciones editadas, con el concurso de los pacientes, en los hospitales psiquiátricos españoles durante el siglo pasado y que, si ya nos permitió conocer algo más de la cotidianidad institucional tal y como quedó reflejada entre sus páginas, así como de otros aspectos relativos a la transición y reforma psiquiátrica en España, en esta ocasión, nos ayudará a ilustrar aspectos relacionados con las bibliotecas, la lectura y la escritura en los hospitales psiquiátricos.
Libraries in psychiatric hospitals played a significant role in the so-called moral treatment. Books were used as distraction and entertainment, as well as therapy (bibliotherapy or therapy through reading).Accompanying them, we see the appearance of various publications where the patients’ writings were disseminated, with the double purpose of promoting intellectual activity, as well as projecting the institution outside. The hospital fanzines, which emerged early in the 19th century, have survived over the years, adapting to the times. From a historiographical and first-person point of view, those modest publications, many of them at serious risk of being lost forever, acquirea special added value as primary sources of knowledge of the institutional day-to-day.The work, part of a larger project (www.psiquifanzines.com), is based on the review of a large number of publications edited, with the participation of patients, in Spanish psychiatric hospitals during the last century. If it has already allowed us to learn more about the institutional daily life as reflected in its pages, as well as other aspects related to the transition and psychiatric reform in Spain, on this occasion, it will help us to illustrate aspects related to libraries, reading and writing in psychiatric hospitals.
Libraries in psychiatric hospitals played a significant role in the so-called moral treatment. Books were used as distraction and entertainment, as well as therapy (bibliotherapy or therapy through reading).Accompanying them, we see the appearance of various publications where the patients’ writings were disseminated, with the double purpose of promoting intellectual activity, as well as projecting the institution outside. The hospital fanzines, which emerged early in the 19th century, have survived over the years, adapting to the times. From a historiographical and first-person point of view, those modest publications, many of them at serious risk of being lost forever, acquirea special added value as primary sources of knowledge of the institutional day-to-day.The work, part of a larger project (www.psiquifanzines.com), is based on the review of a large number of publications edited, with the participation of patients, in Spanish psychiatric hospitals during the last century. If it has already allowed us to learn more about the institutional daily life as reflected in its pages, as well as other aspects related to the transition and psychiatric reform in Spain, on this occasion, it will help us to illustrate aspects related to libraries, reading and writing in psychiatric hospitals.
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Sociología histórica, 2025, Vol. 15, nº.1, p. 359-392
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